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> These guys just don't get it. DF can be SOOOOO much better, Maybe. Or maybe it would lose its soul and become yet another pretty game with boring back storie

by laureny 13y ago

> These guys just don't get it. DF can be SOOOOO much better, Maybe. Or maybe it would lose its soul and become yet another pretty game with boring back stories. I'm torn about that, but I can't help notice that the reason why the stories of your dwarves are so engrossing and so unbelievably epic and real is because 100% of Today's time is spent working on these stories instead of a pretty GUI.

drewhk 13y ago
The problem with DF GUI is not that it is not pretty, but that it is not effective at all. Additional colors, alpha channels (like looking at 2-3 depth cross-sections instead of one), no fixed font size, so smaller info screens, proper zooming (boy, how useful that would be), smoother scrolling to not get lost, etc. I understand they do not want to invest time in these, but all they need is to open up a TCP port and have a protocol that accept commands and returns some game state. Then we could make all kind of open source clients, some fancy (2D, 3D, 4D, whatever) some crazy (multi-screen setups), web frontends or android thin-clients to cloud hosted DF, etc.